DECISIVE MOMENTS: THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT MADE HISTORY

DECISIVE MOMENTS: PICTURES, PICTURES, PICTURES

Documentary looking at some of the early photojournalists and their photographs, particularly the world of American tabloids in the 1920s where photographers would do anything to get a picture. Tony Berardi who took a graphic photograph of the bodies after the St Valentine's Day Massacre talks about it and what his feelings were at the time. Besides the sensational shock-horror type of photographs the programme also considers the start of candid shots of politicians and the effects that had.

DECISIVE MOMENTS: The PERSUADERS

Documentary looking at some of the famous photographs of the 1930s from America, Britain, Germany and the USSR, particularly within the context of propaganda. Analyses the photographs and the truth behind them, as well as the use to which they were put and the impact they had. Considers Dorothea Lange and her photograph of a migrant mother during the American Depression, as well as others; photographs of slums in the North East taken for Picture Post in Britain; the work of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's main photographer throughout his career, most of whose work was made into postcards which sold all over Germany; and, the photographs of the White Sea Canal project taken by Alexander Rodchenko which glamourised a great engineering project which was actually a failure and was built by forced labour from the Gulags.

DECISIVE MOMENTS: ARE YOU CRAZY? The CAMERA AT WAR 1939-1945

Documentary series. This programme examines six key images of the Second World War, from Daily Mail snapper Herbert Mason's photo of St Paul's under siege to Joe Rosenthal's controversial picture of marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. The film also tells the story of Robert Capa's record of the American troops landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day; Yevgeni Khaldei's image of the Hammer and Sickle being raised over the Reichstag; and British photographer George Rodger's experiences of Belsen and speaks to Belsen survivor Sieg Mandaag.

DECISIVE MOMENTS: SOME INTIMACY PHOTOGRAPHING FAME: 1941-1960

Documentary series. The changing face of fame on camera, from co-operation to confrontation, is traced in this fourth documentary. From Sam Shaw's famous image of Marilyn Monroe's billowing skirt, taken to publicise THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH in 1954, to Dennis Stock's armospheric image of James Dean in Time Square, part of a 1955 photo essay on the star.

DECISIVE MOMENTS: ONLY IN THE LIGHT OF THE DAY PHOTOGRAPHING DISSENT IN THE 1960s

Documentary. The 1960s proved a turning point in the history of photography, as pictures of great power documented dissent around the world.

DECISIVE MOMENTS: A ROUGH ROAD PHOTO-JOURNALISM TODAY

Documentary. The pressures facing photo-journalists in the 1980s and 1990s are explored in this last programme. Following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, members of the so-called `royal rat-pack' of photographers discuss their uncompromising methods and the low public standing of their profession.